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Developmental Difference in Metacognitive Accuracy between High School Students and College Students  

Bae, Jinhee (Ajou University)
Cho, Hye-Seung (Ajou University)
Kim, Kyungil (Ajou University)
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Korean Journal of Cognitive Science / v.26, no.1, 2015 , pp. 53-67 More about this Journal
Abstract
Metacognitive monitoring refers to high dimensional cognitive activities. Understanding one's own cognitive processes accurately can make effective controls for their performance. Brain area related with metacognition is PFC which is completed the order of late and it can be inferred that monitoring abilities is developing during late adolescent. In this study, we explored the developmental difference in monitoring accuracy between high school students and college students using by measuring JOL(Judgment of Learning). Participants was asked that they study Spanish-Korean word pairs and judge their future performance of memory. In the result, people in both groups thought that they could remember word pairs better than their actual performance. Absolute bias scores which mean the degree to predict their performance apart from true scores showed the interaction between subject groups and task difficulty. Specifically, people judged their learning state quite accurately in easy task condition. However, in difficult task condition, both groups showed inaccuracy for predicting their learning and the magnitude of the degree was bigger in the group of high school students.
Keywords
metacognition; metacognitive accuracy; monitoring; JOL; Judgment of Learning; developmental difference in Metacognition; Bias;
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